Age Quotes - Page 9

• We can't reach old age by another man's road.

  Mark Twain

  Birthday, Men, Endurance

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.5, Courier Corporation

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• The paired butterflies are already yellow with August Over the grass in the West garden; They hurt me. I grow older.

  Li Bai

  Hurt, Butterfly, Garden

  Ezra Pound, Bai Li (1917). “Lustra of Ezra Pound, with Earlier Poems”

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• The damps of autumn sink into the leaves and prepare them for the necessity of their fall; and thus insensibly are we, as years close around us, detached from our tenacity of life by the gentle pressure of recorded sorrow.

  Walter Savage Landor

  Fall, Autumn, Years

  Walter Savage Landor (1853). “The Works of Walter Savage Landor”, p.318

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• I refuse to admit that I am more than 52, even if that makes my children illegitimate.

  Nancy Astor

  Funny, Children, Aging

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• The years teach much which the days never know.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Inspirational, Life, Wisdom

  'Essays. Second Series' (1844) 'Experience'

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  No spring nor summer beauty hath such grace as I have seen in one autumnal face.

  John Donne

  Beauty, Summer, Spring

  'Elegies' 'The Autumnal' (1599-1601)

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• The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

  Aldous Huxley

  Birthday, Children, Mean

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• I don't want to be the oldest performer in captivity... I don't want to look like a little old man dancing out there.

  Fred Astaire

  Inspiration, Men, Dancing

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• It's a mere moment in a man's life between an All-Star game and an old-timer's game.

  Vin Scully

  Stars, Carpe Diem, Men

  Remark at Major League Baseball All-Star Game at Dodger Stadium, 1980.

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• It is utterly false and cruelly arbitrary... to put all the play and learning into childhood, all the work into middle age, and all the regrets into old age.

  Margaret Mead

  Birthday, Regret, Learning

  "Teacher's Treasury of Stories for Every Occasion". Book by Millard Dale Baughman, 1958.

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• I don't know how you feel about old age... but in my case I didn't even see it coming. It hit me from the rear.

  Phyllis Diller

  How You Feel, Aging, 60th Birthday

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• At the age of four with paper hats and wooden swords we're all Generals. Only some of us never grow out of it.

  Peter Ustinov

  Birthday, Peace, War

  Romanoff and Juliet act 1 (1956)

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• For the complete life, the perfect pattern includes old age as well as youth and maturity.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Maturity, Perfect, Silly Person

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

  Samuel Johnson

  Disease, Asthma, Five

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1859). “The Life of Samuel Johnson”, p.245

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• The complete life, the perfect pattern, includes old age as well as youth and maturity. The beauty of the morning and the radiance of noon are good, but it would be a very silly person who drew the curtains and turned on the light in order to shut out the tranquillity of the evening. Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Beauty, Morning, Silly

  W. Somerset Maugham (1954). “Mr. Maugham Himself”

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• As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

  James Russell Lowell

  Running, Time, Reality

  1887 'Sixty-Eighth Birthday'.

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• You cant reach old age by another man's road, my habits protect my life but they would assassinate you

  Mark Twain

  Men, Habit, Protect

  Mark Twain, Milton Meltzer (2002). “Mark Twain Himself: A Pictorial Biography”, p.266, University of Missouri Press

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• Adults are obsolete children.

  Dr. Seuss

  Inspirational, Children, Educational

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Old age takes away from us what we have inherited and gives us what we have earned.

  Gerald Brenan

  Giving, Aging, Old People

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• There is only one cure for gray hair. It was invented by a Frenchman. It is called the guillotine.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Humorous, Hair, Getting Older

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• Yes, time flies. And where did it leave you? Old too soon...smart too late.

  Mike Tyson

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

  William Shakespeare

  Love, Time, Men

  'Much Ado About Nothing' (1598-9) act 2, sc. 3, l. [258]

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• Religion often gets credit for curing rascals when old age is the real medicine.

  Austin O'Malley

  Real, Medicine, Credit

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• These fragments I have shored against my ruins

  T. S. Eliot

  Ruins, Nostalgia, Aging

  The Waste Land l. 431 (1922)

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• Fear not death; for the sooner we die, the longer shall we be immortal.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Death, Aging, Immortal

  "Poor Richard's Almanack".

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